The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-06-22

persons so shipped to this country, II Iouno
to be convicts. The Collector is also in
structed to convey that information to the
Commissioner of Immigration at San
Francisco.
Rev. j. H. Knight died June I'd at Var
mouth. The deceased was author of "She
Wore Wreath of Roses - Rocked in the
Cradle of the Deep" and other well-known
songs. He was rs years of age, having
been born in Bradford on the Avon on July
26, 1912. While in America in 1886 he COM
posed Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep. ="
Mr.. Knight was for some time connected
with the ministry of sthe Church of Eng
land. Under his own name and that OF
Philip Mortimer he had published over
200 vocal compositions, many of which en-
joy the greatest popularity wherever the
English language is sung or spoken.
Lawrence NJ. Donovan, of bridge-jump-
ing notoriety, is in England, and an
nounced that he proposed jumping from
London Bridge into the Thames, on Sun
day, June 5th, under the auspices of the
London Athletic Club, about noon, pro-
vided the police are not alert enough to
stop him. The measure of the Jump would
be according to the place selected, but the
average height is only fifty feet.
Since Cardinal Gibbons memorable re-
port appeared in the I" Herald, " the Knights
Europe, which, till then, had taken but
slight interest in their existence. Cardinal
Manning's letter has been followed by q
lengthy essay on the organization of the
Knights in the current number of the
"Revue POlitique ct Litteraire," in an ar
ticle on Catholic Socialism" John E
Lemoine also gives them prominence. II
may interest the Knights to know thai
lately, on his return from Rome to Paris
Bishop Keane, one of their stanchest de-
tenders, went out of his way to discuss
them in a familiar address to the students
of st. Sulpice Seminary. He referred to
the Herald" publication, and thanked
heaven that an American paper had, by
revealing the text of Cardinal Gibbons re-
port, been providentially enabled to show
the true attitude of the Catholic Church
on the labor question-to prove to all the
world that it was not at the beck and call
Lazarus.
Hon. William A. Wheeler, ex-Vice Presi-
dent of the United States, died at Malone
Franklin county New York, June 4th
He remained in a comotose state during
the night, and passed peacefully away
without sign of recognition to those about
him.
Mr.. Wheeler, whose vitality had been
decreasing slowly through the past six
years, retained his usual vigor up to per-
haps six months ago, and from that date
he failed rapidly. He was tortured terri
bly, by insomania and neuralgia, aud was
also afflicted with catarrh of the bladder.
On the night of the Sd of March last he
was seized with a chill, followed by sink
ing spell and then by fever, and for hours
his physicians thought him dying. He
never fully rallied from that attack, and
mind and body wasted together. There
has probably been softening of the brain,
and tor weeks he was irrational. This
brain affection was the immediate cause of
death. There is universal sorrow among
the people. Flags are at half-mast and
emblems of mourning are displayed. The
funeral will be held at p. m. Wednesday,
June It'll, at the Congregational Church,
with a sermon by the pastor, to whom
Wheeler had beena second father. Presi-
dent Cleveland has been appraised of the
death and the time of the funeral. Ex-
President Hayes sent telegram of condo
lence and signifed his intention to be pres
ent at the funeral. Mr.. Wheeler was born
June 30, 1919.
The Palace of the Emperor of Japan at
Toxic is to be lighted by 5000 electric
lamps.
News has been received at ST. Petersburg
from Herat that the Amer of Afghanis-
tan is in a critical position. He has with
drawn the garrisons of Herat and Balkh
for the purpose of reinforcing the troops
defeated in the adjacent country in the
fights with Ghilzais
LONDON, June 4th.-A monster process
sion in honor of Gladstone was held at
Swansea, Wales, to-day. Gladstone, with
prominent Liberals of Wales, occupied a
special stand, from which he reviewed a
parade of 100000 Welshmen wearing ro-
settles and bearing banners and accom-
panied by numerous bands. As they
marched past the stand canons were fired
and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed.
The procession was five hou2s in passing
the review stand. After the men all passed
they massed to hear Gladstone, who spoke
for an hour. He said that the waste of
time in the House of Commons was due to
the fact that the Coercion bill was badly
framed, badly conducted, wanting a basis
of facts, extravagant, insidious in its OBJ
jects and totally mismanaged as well as
misconceived. Lord Salisbury's complaint
of obstruction was unmanly and effemi-
nate. The fatigued Conservatives should
be given a longer Whitsun holiday. He
warned that they would be even more
tired, for it would be impossible to perma-
nently govern Ireland coercively in the
light of day and in the atmosphere of free
dom. Gladstone asked the Welshmen to
believe the Irish human beings, full OF
noble qualities. He was confident that
the Welshman would sympathize with the
Irishman in the difficult and arduous con-
test in which their triumph was absolutely
certain.
fa~r hull